Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - #5

It is now the sixth year at Hogwarts for Harry and his friends and things are not going well. Everyone now knows that Harry was telling the truth about Lord Voldemort's return but there are other problems. Many deaths have occurred and parents are naturally frightened to send their children away to school. Now Harry has to be concerned with what Draco Malfoy is up to. They see him in one of the Dark Arts shops outside of Diagon Alley and they know he is trying to fix something. Now Harry is concerned about Draco, is buried in homework and he has private sessions with Professor Dumbledore. The professor is hoping to show Harry the connection that exist between him and Lord Voldemort so that Harry can know how to destroy the Dark Lord.

This was a wonderful set up to the last book of the series. I cried so hard at the end of the book. It was nice to reread this before the end of the series.